China’s Dictatorial Political System Is The Root Cause Of Its Disastrous Covid Policies

Beijing abandoned brutal and unpopular policies abruptly “zero Covid” After it had been terminated, policy was reinstated in December. wrecked China’s economy and caused the Chinese people countless miseries This eventually led to massive protests. China’s reopening has been a disaster. It does not validate the government’s prior “zero Covid” policy but illustrates everything wrong with the nation’s dictatorial political system.

On March 19, 2022, while Covid-19 spread worldwide like wildfire, China’s dictator Xi Jinping declared He was the winner of the “people’s war” The pandemic was defeated. Such a victory was meant to serve as indisputable evidence that China’s one-party political system is superior to the democracies of the West.

Xi’s declaration of victory was premature. After three years of torture for the Chinese people with mass testing and invasive contact trace, extended lockdowns, economic hardship, and prolonged lockdowns, China was the last major country to reopen. “zero covid” The policy was chaotic and scary. 

Hospitals are equipped with the following: reportedly Overflowing patients meant that the mortuaries across the country were at capacity. As bodies pile up, they had to work overtime. As they have run out of stock, pharmacies are emptying shelves. run out of Ibuprofen is a basic cold and fever medicine. Many people call in sick to factories, which causes a shortage of workers at factories.

American companies in China are also affected. Tesla, for example, was among those affected. shut down Between Dec. 25th and Jan. 1, it closed its Shanghai factory due to increasing Covid infections in its employees. Zhejiang province is a hub for manufacturing where many Apple suppliers are based. It reported that it had difficulty keeping its factories open. one million New Covid cases available on Christmas Day 

A leaked document from an internal meeting of China’s National Health Commission showed officials estimated that about 250 million Chinese, which is 18 percent of China’s population, could have been infected in the first twenty days of December with Covid. Yet the Chinese government’s official report insisted that Covid cases fell 47 percent to 4,666 in December, and the last seven days’ daily new death toll was either zero or a single digit.

Because Beijing’s official Covid data has been widely ridiculed as untrustworthy, Chinese health officials finally admitted They had also changed the way they count deaths from Covid-19 infections. Since then, the Chinese authorities undercounted Covid death tolls throughout the pandemic, the latest methodology change renders China’s official Covid data meaningless. China has stopped publishing daily Covid information since Christmas, possibly because it knows no one trusts them.

China’s disastrous reopening is not a validation of Beijing’s “zero Covid” policy but a refutation of it and an indictment of China’s political system. The nation is ruled over by one party, Xi, who was officially declared a dictator for the rest of his life at the 20th Party Congress. By declaring a premature victory in early 2020 and tying the elimination of Covid-19 to his legacy and the supposed superiority of the Chinese Communist Party’s governance, Xi left no room for policy debates. His will became policies regardless of how ridiculous they might seem.

Xi decided to close China’s borders and impose prolonged lockdowns, despite evidence from other countries showing such approaches are ineffective In containing